Candidate for Toronto District School Board in Ward 12, with answers on school buildings, staffing and language programs.
Aria Garcia is on the City of Toronto’s list of certified candidates for Toronto District School Board in Ward 12, with a nomination filed on May 5, 2026. The candidate’s Know Your Vote T.O. answers say the candidate has more than 20 years of work in banking, telecom and retail and holds paralegal, law clerk, accounting and taxation qualifications. Those are the candidate’s own statements.
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Toronto municipal electionAria Garcia appears on the City of Toronto’s list of certified candidates for Toronto District School Board in Ward 12. A certified candidate is one whose nomination the City Clerk has accepted. The list shows the nomination date as May 5, 2026 and gives no campaign website. Ward 12 covers City wards 24 and 25, Scarborough-Guildwood and Scarborough-Rouge Park.
In the Know Your Vote T.O. answers the candidate says there are more than 20 years of working experience in banking, telecom and retail, completed law degrees in Paralegal and Law Clerk studies, a diploma in Computerized Accounting and Office Administration, and a taxation degree as a tax accountant. voche.me did not check these claims against a school or a public record.
The candidate’s first listed action as a trustee would be to check the status of every TDSB school, as the answers describe in the priorities below. voche.me has not contacted the campaign yet.
Summarized from the campaign’s published profile. These are stated positions, not an assessment of results or a complete platform.
The Know Your Vote T.O. answer says the first action would be to check each school’s ownership title, construction cost, business registration with the Canada Revenue Agency and income tax returns filed.
Know Your Vote T.O. · Aria Garcia, TDSB Ward 12The answer says a trustee should set teacher and educational-assistant staffing levels and class sizes “with at least 25 for all levels”, starting with a check of elementary schools for a lack of teachers and classrooms, then secondary schools.
Know Your Vote T.O. · Aria Garcia, TDSB Ward 12The answer says the candidate would put language programs first for students born in other countries and would add arts programming taught in those countries.
Know Your Vote T.O. · Aria Garcia, TDSB Ward 12Evidence reviewed on October 4, 2026: the City of Toronto’s list of certified candidates, the candidate’s Know Your Vote T.O. page, a podcast page that page links, the TDSB’s trustee wards page, the City Clerk’s 2022 declaration of results, the TDSB’s 2018 to 2022 trustee list and a CBC News report of September 2, 2025. The background and priorities come from the candidate’s own answers and are attributed to them in the sentences that carry them. The priorities summarise part of each answer, and the full answers are on the Know Your Vote T.O. page. A check of the City Clerk’s 2022 results found no entry with this name.
TDSB wards changed for 2026. Ward 12 covers City wards 24 and 25, which the City names Scarborough-Guildwood and Scarborough-Rouge Park. In 2022 the board’s wards were numbered differently. The TDSB’s 2018 to 2022 trustee list names the old Ward 19 as Scarborough-Guildwood and the old Ward 22 as Scarborough-Rouge Park. The City Clerk’s 2022 results mark Zakir Patel elected in the old Ward 19 and Anu Sriskandarajah elected in the old Ward 22, and a CBC News report of September 2, 2025 describes them as the trustees for those two areas. Anu Sriskandarajah is also a candidate in Ward 12. Those seats belong to the old wards and are not treated as seats in the new Ward 12. The TDSB’s trustee wards page says that during provincial supervision the powers of trustees rest with the provincially appointed Supervisor, that trustees have no official duties with the board at this time, and that this also applies to trustees elected in the October 2026 election.
Gaps. The City’s list gives no website. The Know Your Vote T.O. page links two websites and an X account. The podcast page was read through a summary, which is saved as a summary. It names the host as Aria Milado Garcia and says the host is running as a T.D.S.B. candidate in October 2026. The other website, a Pinterest page, returned no readable content, and the X account returned HTTP 402 to WebFetch. No news report that names the candidate was found. No board minutes were searched because no public role is on record in the profile. The questionnaire has not been sent.
The candidate’s Know Your Vote T.O. answer says there are more than 20 years of working experience in banking, telecom and retail, law degrees in Paralegal and Law Clerk studies, a diploma in Computerized Accounting and Office Administration, and a taxation degree as a tax accountant. voche.me did not verify these statements.
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